Western Art Collector October 2024/No. 206

Welcome to the October issue of Western Art Collector! This issue marks our publishing anniversary: four years ago, during the October issue, Adolfo Castillo and I purchased 25-year-old International Artist Publishing and its five art titles—Western Art Collector, Native American Art, American Fine Art Magazine, American Art Collector and our flagship publication, International Artist. Adolfo and I had known and worked with Vincent Miller, the founder and publisher, for 25-plus years prior, which prepared us for the exciting journey. Many things have grown over the past four years as we have focused on the importance of bringing you everything you need to help you collect art. To complement our magazines we added a podcast show, the American Art Collective, which debuted on March 30, 2021, with its first episode hosted…

Remember the days of yore, way back in 2019, when an artist duct taped a banana to a wall at Art Basel and it sold for $120,000? This was pre-Covid, so it truly feels like this happened eons ago. It was a simpler time, when bananas and tape could appear on a wall in Miami Beach and stop people in their tracks. One attendee would later stroll up to the “art installation”—the scare quotes around that phrase will make sense later—and casually eat the banana. What did it taste like? I kid you not, direct from his lips: “It tasted like $120,000.” For what’s it’s worth, we have no bananas in this issue. That’s not a judgement on that particular work of art, but it is a statement of fact:…

November 1-2 58th Cowboy Artists of America Exhibition & Sale WILL ROGERS MEMORIAL CENTER September 18 Brett Allen Johnson MAXWELL ALEXANDER GALLERY Online – (213) 275-1060 maxwellalexandergallery.com October 4 Alvin Gill-Tapia: Gilded Structures MANITOU GALLERIES Santa Fe, NM – (505) 986-0440 www.legacygallery.com October 4-25 Trailblazers & Traditions INSIGHT GALLERY Fredericksburg, TX – (830) 997-9920 insightgallery.com Oct. 4, 2024-Jan. 19, 2025 Storytellers: Narrative Art and the West BRISCOE WESTERN ART MUSEUM San Antonio, TX – (210) 299-4499 www.briscoemuseum.org Through October 5 Kyle Polzin LEGACY GALLERY Santa Fe, NM – (505) 986-9833 www.legacygallery.com October 5-13 26th Annual Laguna Beach Plein Air Painting Invitational VARIOUS LOCATIONS Laguna Beach, CA – (949) 376-3635, lpapa.org October 11-26 Doug West: Seeing the Now BLUE RAIN GALLERY Through October 6 Quest for the West EITELJORG MUSEUM Indianapolis,…

Through November 17, 2024 Traditional Cowboy Arts Association Exhibition & Sale NATIONAL COWBOY & WESTERN HERITAGE MUSEUM  Oklahoma City, OK – (405) 478-2250  tcaa.nationalcowboymuseum.org Through November 30, 2024 64th Annual Art and the Animal Exhibition SIOUX CITY PUBLIC MUSEUM Sioux City, IA – (712) 279-6174 www.siouxcitymuseum.org Through December 31, 2024 Creating Common Memory  THE WESTMORELAND MUSEUM OF AMERICAN ART Greensburg, PA – (724) 837-1500 www.thewestmoreland.org Through January 2025 Selling the Southwest MUSEUM OF NORTHERN ARIZONA  Flagstaff, AZ – (928) 774-5213 musnaz.org Through January 19, 2025 Icons & Symbols of the Borderland: Art from the U.S.-Mexico THE JAMES MUSEUM OF WESTERN & WILDLIFE ART St. Petersburg, FL – (727) 892-4200 www.thejamesmuseum.org Through June 8, 2025 The Horse in Art DESERT CABALLEROS WESTERN MUSEUM Wickenburg, AZ – (928) 684-2272 www.westernmuseum.org…

November 1-2, 2024 Cowboy Artists of America Show & Sale Fort Worth, TX – (817) 247-1200 November 8-9, 2024 Santa Fe Art Auction’s Annual Signature Live Auction Santa Fe, NM – (505) 954-5858 Nov. 30-Dec. 1, 2024 SWAIA Winter Indian Market Santa Fe, NM – (505) 983-5220 January 6-26, 2025 Coors Western Art Exhibit & Sale Denver, CO – (303) 291-2567 January 24-25, 2025 Brian Lebel’s Old West Show & Auction Las Vegas, NV – (877) 968-8880 January 2025 (Dates TBA) Denver Art Museum Western Symposium Denver, CO – (720) 865-5000 February 14-16, 2025 Southeastern Wildlife Exposition Charleston, SC – (843) 723-1748 March 20-22, 2025 March in Montana Coeur d’Alene, ID – (208) 664-2091 March 20-22, 2025 The Russell Great Falls, MT – (406) 727-1939 March 2025 (Dates TBA) Out…

After a long and distinguished trip traveling with the dual exhibitions Andy Warhol: Cowboys & Indians and Billy Schenck: Myth of the West, Schenck’s large half-tone dot painting, Half-Tone Flats, was acquired by the Petrie Institute of Western American Art at the Denver Art Museum. The work appears in the catalog for the exhibition Western Pop: Andy Warhol & Billy Schenck, with essays on each artist by Michael Duchemin, the former president and CEO at the Briscoe Western Art Museum in Texas. “Labeled ‘The Warhol of the West,’ Billy Schenck fashioned a new style of Western Pop, inspired by Andy Warhol’s halftone dot process, his repetitive images, and limited-edition series of screen prints. By 1996, Schenck had created 52 series of limited-edition serigraphs, reflecting fictionalized Western histories, contemporary ranch life…